Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
Breonna Taylor’s boyfriend settles lawsuits over botched police raid
(Reuters) - Louisville will pay $2 million to settle two lawsuits filed by the boyfriend of Breonna Taylor, a Black woman killed by police during a no-knock raid at her apartment in the Kentucky city ...
Dec 13, 2022
U.S. senator Manchin says Treasury should limit commercial EV tax credit use
By David Shepardson (Reuters) - U.S. Senator Joe Manchin, a Democrat who chairs the chamber's energy panel, asked the Treasury Department on Tuesday not to allow a commercial electric vehicle tax cred...
Dec 13, 2022
Explainer-U.S. pandemic border restrictions blocking migrants are set to end next week. Will they?
By Ted Hesson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Pandemic-era border restrictions that have blocked hundreds of thousands of migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border are set to end on Dec. 21 following a U.S. judge's r...
Dec 13, 2022
Ex-employee of pharmacy in deadly 2012 meningitis outbreak gets prison
By Nate Raymond BOSTON (Reuters) - A former employee of a Massachusetts compounding pharmacy whose mold-tainted drugs sparked a deadly nationwide fungal meningitis outbreak in 2012 was sentenced on Tu...
Dec 13, 2022
U.S. House Jan. 6 committee to meet Dec. 19 for vote on referrals, report
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol will hold a public meeting on Dec. 19 to vote on its report and criminal r...
Dec 13, 2022
Cyndi Lauper to perform as Biden signs marriage equality act
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Singer-songwriter Cyndi Lauper will perform on Tuesday when U.S. President Joe Biden signs the Respect for Marriage Act into law in front of thousands of supporters and activist...
Dec 13, 2022
U.S. existing-home sales to slide to 11-year low in 2023, NAR says
(Reuters) - Sales of previously owned U.S. homes will fall for a second year in 2023 to their lowest annual total since 2012 when the housing market was still in a slow recovery from the sub-prime mor...
Dec 13, 2022
U.S. charges five Russians, two Americans with conspiracy on behalf of Russian government
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department said a 16-count indictment was unsealed Tuesday in Brooklyn charging five Russian nationals and two U.S. nationals with conspiracy related to a globa...
Dec 13, 2022
NSA warns that hackers are going after U.S. networking gear
By Christopher Bing (Reuters) - The U.S. National Security Agency on Tuesday said a foreign hacking group named APT5, which is known as being Chinese, had been caught exploiting a vulnerability inside...
Dec 13, 2022
CSX tweaks attendance policy as railroad unions push back on sick time
By Lisa Baertlein and Rod Nickel (Reuters) - Rail operator CSX Corp is changing its attendance policy for unexpected, short-term medical absences next year after U.S. railroads' sick-time policies bec...
Dec 13, 2022
